The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music (pdf)

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Contributors address such issues as the role of algorithms as co-performers, live coding practices, and discussions of the algorithmic culture as it currently exists and what it can potentially contribute society, education, and ecommerce. Chapters engage particularly with post-human perspectives – what new musics are now being found through algorithmic means which humans could not otherwise have made – and, in reciprocation, how algorithmic music is being assimilated back into human culture and what meanings it subsequently takes. Blending technical, artistic, cultural, and scientific viewpoints, thisHandbookpositions algorithmic music making as an essentially human activity.